"Cons: Highly dependent on Google account."
➠ May 24, 2010
"Cons: Highly dependent on Google account."
Interesting perspective from Ben Ward on Android.
“I’ve just endured a week of reading Google’s ‘opener than thou’ harping, with ever increasing levels of irritation, and all along Android is locked in to their services? What bullshit.”
As a geek who cares a bit about openness, I live with my iPhone, but wish Android was a real competitor for my affection. It’s clearly getting to a stage where HTC can produce a quality smartphone — fast enough and featured enough to keep most people happy.
But, strangely for Google, I feel that my geeky desires are being ignored. Unless you buy the single “Google phone”, you’re not buying a particularly geek-friendly device. Due to Google’s Apache licensing, the phone makers and cell companies have enough control to ensure an experience where I have *less* control than with my iPhone.
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About 1 year, 11 months ago, dsandler commented:
Interesting—I haven't heard this angle before. Your impression is that the Droid is more locked-down than the Nexus One?
I guess that's true in that you can't flash a whole new ROM on most devices without hacking them. But you're in that boat with the iPhone, for sure.
Maybe I'm missing part of the argument; I genuinely want to know why Android isn't geeky enough! (That is: I consider you to be an archetypical geek whom we should be pleasing greatly. In fact, we usually get dinged for being _too_ geeky.)